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Introduction: What is WordPress.org? Is WordPress good? Listen To The Word!

Welcome to our WordPress Review. Arguably more an open source content management system (CMS) than website builder; but our WordPress.org review will take a look at what this highly popular CMS has to offer for the masses and by the end you will be ready to start a WordPress website of your own.

Overview: Our WordPress review could be the solution to your online presence.

This is a self-managed, open source content management system which is free to use. The platform allows full scope for individuals and small businesses to create a WordPress web site, review the information before uploading and create a web presence that in their eyes is fit for purpose.

Our WordPress review must point out that those wishing to create a thoroughly professional looking site will need to invest in:

A domain name: This should be relevant to your web presence (Blog, Brand, Products/Services offered.

WordPress web hosting: You will be required to purchase a 3rd party web hosting service such as our highly recommended Siteground service.

Having said this, it should also be clear that our WordPress review feels such an investment is far lower than you will find with other similar services. Those on a limited budget should have no problem meeting such costs.

Figures from a variety of sources including WordPress review sites state that the platform powers almost 1/3rd of the web. This ranges from simple website creation, through blogs on every topic out there, to higher end, complex portals and enterprise websites.

In fact it is a favoured platform by many web agencies including us! 🙂

Ease of use:

Simplicity:

The platform focuses on getting users online and publishing in no time at all. After domain and hosting provider has been chosen, it will be a case of using a one click installer from the hosting company. Straight forward for tech savvy but maybe a little unfriendly for newbies.

Ease of publishing:

Create whatever content you wish through an editor similar to that you would find with Microsoft Word. Posts and Pages can be written, media inserted wherever necessary, preferred format completed, and with one-click, your content is live and out there on the web.

To compare competitors ease of use please follow these links to Weebly review and Wix review pages for our leading alternatives for this score.

Features and Flexibility:

Flexibility:

Whatever type of website you want to create is yours. You can start with the creation of a WordPress Blog, review this to ensure it meets your initial requirement, and then enhance it with themes and plugins as required.

Themes & Templates:

A library of FREE themes and templates will ensure you find one to meet your needs. However, you will more likely find a more unique and premium theme from a major theme provider in this arena such as Template Monster. Changing themes is also possible as you may want to refresh your site after some time.

Public or Private:

The choice is yours. WordPress.org publishing tools make it easy to manage your content. Drafts can be created, publications scheduled, historical review of post revisions is an option, and however you wish your content to be presented it will be. This can be publicly or privately presented while more secure pages and posts can be password-protected.

Degrees of management:

You are at liberty to give multiple user account access as you see fit. Administrators have full control to manage your site, editors deal with content, authors and those contributors write your content and subscriber profiles can be created. All with varying access rights dependent upon your choice.

Media upload:

The growing presence and importance of media on your web presence should not be lost. This is one feature our WordPress.org review recommends you stand up and take notice of. Quick, easy upload of images and media can be achieved through drag and drop functions. Alt text, captions and titles, image insertion and galleries are yours to create.

Multilingual:

With the global reach of an online presence constantly increasing, one WordPress website review function that should not be missed is the fact the platform is offered in more than 70 languages!

To compare competitors within features and flexibility please follow these links to Weebly review and Wix review pages for our leading alternatives.

eCommerce Tools:

3rd party eCommerce plugins can be installed to the WordPress platform. The WooCommerce shop plugin for example is free for personal as well as commercial use. This means that once installed they can be used immediately to establish an online store presence. Once established you will then be able to sell either digital and/or physical products online.

Putting this ecommerce platform in place offers a host of advantages. To emphasise this it will mean you are ready to begin and expand the selling of products or services at exactly the pace that suits your aspirations. Putting in place such a platform will enable you to accept credit card payments and set up shipping as well as the delivery of goods directly from your website.

SEO and Mobility:

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO): WordPress review articles quite rightly point out that SEO features come ‘out of the box’ and that there are also fine-grain SEO control plugins you can add. However, it does have to be said that in order to maximise your online reach and exposure, you would be wise to invest in the services of a professional digital media marketing agency to get the most from SEO. The plugins will need to be fine tuned and then there is always the matter for off page SEO works.

To compare competitors in the extremely important area relating to effective SEO practice please follow these links to Weebly review and Wix review pages for our leading alternatives for SEO.

Support and Resources:

Being one of the most popular online content management systems there is an abundant level of online forums and community support to delve into although a higher level of expertise may be required to filter through these areas for support. Unfortunately newbies may feel like they are on their own.

To compare competitors in the extremely important area relating to effective Support please follow these links to Weebly review and WIX review pages for our leading alternatives for Support.

Pricing:

Our WordPress.org review has even better news for those considering this platform. The only costs you need consider are web hosting and a domain name.

While additional costs would include commercial WordPress themes, these are not mandatory, although, as you develop your web presence they will generally be needed.

While there will undoubtedly be interest with WordPress.org being free, those who are still unsure with other ongoing cost management and future needs, it is recommended that you also review other Website builder platforms to achieve a comprehensive understanding of what is out there. In our opinion, Weebly website creator and Wix Website builder offers the best pricing and value with its plans.

Conclusion and Recommendation:

So, is WordPress good, bad and ugly? The WordPress.org platform has lots going for it. It is free to use, offers flexibility and ease of use to create a web presence that suit initial needs, but also allows you to grow at whatever pace is appropriate.

While optional costs can be incurred through paid-for plugins and themes, these are reasonably priced.

Another reason our WordPress.org review strongly recommends this platform is the fact that those businesses or bloggers who wish to make money from their site can do so by running their own on page adverts.

Finally we owe it to the readers of our WordPress website review; Because this powerful platform offers so much and is free to use, we strongly recommend those with some tech skills to go for a free trial and assess specific benefits for their needs. Newbies, we suggest reviewing some other platforms like Weebly and Wix too.

That’s all for now:

Thanks for reading our WordPress Website Review and don’t forget to keep an eye out for our ever-growing blog of review and comparison articles. You may be interested in our related website builder, eCommerce platform review and comparison articles below;

Being a veteran in the website building and eCommerce game definitely has its benefits. Richard has long been in the industry with more than 10 years of experience with building websites and constructing eCommerce platforms for clients. He’s also a bit of a whiskey connoisseur.

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